Learning more about history and the hideous tentacles of empire is...depressing. Seeing the state of the world is...depressing. My family pleading with me to vote Biden is...depressing. Being an environmental science student is...you get the gist. The only sources of positivity I see are moderately-propagandistic videos from CGTN and from PRC simps about some of the great things China is doing, but I can't completely internalize those because I am still stuck in the western/american regime of 'Positive news about China/Socialist Countries is always wrong or exaggerated' (which I'm trying to work thru) so yeah.

Is there anything to be optimistic about in the world?

  • Sunn_Owns [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    My comrade, 2008 turned an entire generation pro-socialist. The living standards of Millennials/Zoomers have fallen so precipitously from Boomers that there's no way to look at society as currently constructed and think "It's working!"

    Does that mean change is inevitable and we all won't die under the heel of eco fascists? Of course not, but there are massive ideological shifts taking place. Huge events radicalize generations - 2008 is going to look like a blip compared to Covid Depression.

    My family moralizes about Biden all the time, I just say 'If Joe Biden is the head of the Democratic Party then I'm glad to call myself an independent'. You don't owe Biden or your family shit, especially when he's immiserated so many people.